Patti Smith performing at Provinssirock festival, Seinäjoki, Finland, June 2007. photograph by Beni Köhler Patricia Lee Smith (b. 12/30/46) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the “punk poet laureate”, Smith fused rock and…
Month: March 2022
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The image is a picture taken on 2/26/22 of a sculpture, “Circus Acrobats” by George Segal at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.
Have you heard of Spinosaurus? Me neither before yesterday
image by Davide Bonadonna “Bigger than a T-Rex, water loving Spinosaurus throws dinosaur orthodoxy for a loop” Michigan Radio | By Stateside Staff Published September 30, 2020 at 5:36 PM EDT I listened to this “podcast” on NPR yesterday on my drive back from Grand Rapids. Just when we thought we knew everything (tongue firmly in…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 13 – Carol Kaye
Carol Kaye. Click on this to take you to a great interview with her at TapeOp Carol Kaye (née Smith, b. 3/24/35) is an American musician. She is one of the most prolific recorded bass guitarists in rock and pop music, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye…
TSM 202 — When the sun shines bright, then sinks low
Carrying of the water, stoking of the stove, sweeping up the cinders, mending of the clothes. Cooking up the dinner, helping kids with sums; then telling bedtime stories, of faeries and Tom Thumbs, I tuck wee ones into dreams in trundle beds under wool. Undone it comes, one plait at a time, in warm gaslight….
off to visit grandbaby!
Dale Chihuly assemblage hanging in part of Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. photo taken 2/26/22 Heading over to see my darling grandbaby in a few minutes. She is able to stand without holding onto anything now. She will be a year old next month. Can you believe it’s been almost a year since she was…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 12 – Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; b. 7/17/50 – d. 4/26/11) was born in New York City and raised in a musical household in which Delta blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and folk music recordings were played around the clock. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an…
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